The Warming Blog

A recent article published in Anesthesiology News examines a study that shows that forced-air warming may not be as effective at maintaining normothermia through the entire perioperative period as some had previously thought. Even when warmed with expensive forced-air warming systems, some patients still fell into postoperative hypothermia, showing that the gentle, radiant and reliable heat from conductive blanket and fluid warming may, in fact, be more effective at maintaining long-term normothermia.